Events in Parish History
December - January

 
December 1827
Site for St. Austin's church purchased.

December 1829
First church organ installed

11th December 1922
St. Austin's Calvary War Memorial unveiled.  

23rd December 1912
St. Austin's SVP branch established.

15th December 1943
Death of Fr, Michael Harty, parish priest.

6th January 1991
Death of Mgr Thompson, former parish priest, in retirement.

17th January 1828
St. Austin's church registered as a "Papist Mass House"

20th January 1839
First marriage celebrated at St. Austin's

January 1906
First issue of St. Austin's Parish Magazine

St. Austin's War Memorial

Unveiled in December 1922 it was Wakefield's
first memorial to the First World War

 

 
Last Updated
2 July 2006
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